Episodes

Thursday Jul 08, 2021
018 - Sacred Titties
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Movie night! We’re watching The Name of the Rose (1986) about a mystery in an abbey that has scriptoriums, lost books, and twinks.
Missing Eco: On Reading "The Name of the Rose" as Library Criticism

Thursday Jul 01, 2021
017 - Technoprivacolutionism
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
We’re talking about surveillance, ubiquitous computing, AI, printer problems, and labor with this week’s guest Callan (eminencefont).
https://twitter.com/eminencefont
Outback Wish House https://bkfst.org/
Users at the Center of Everything: Service Design in Rapidly Changing Libraries
Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: A User Experience Approach | ALA Store
Articles and other links
Goodbye, ALA | At The Intersection
https://seadoubleyew.com/630/maintaining-curation-lessons-from-an-ipod-in-2021/
https://abolitionistlibraryassociation.org/
Critical Library Performativity: Toward Progressive Change in Academic Library Management and Organizations https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/34402
Allied Media Conference: AMC2022
Defend Dissent – Open Textbook
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work

Thursday Jun 24, 2021
016 - Wherefore MLS, or, Degrees for Exceptional Women
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
This week we’re talking about the history of the MLS degree, why do we do it, and how does it exacerbate all those pesky contradictions that keep dialecting off themselves?
Draft 6: Radical Empathy Report
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
Harris, R. M. (1992). Librarianship : the erosion of a woman’s profession. Ablex Pub. Corp.
http://mauraseale.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Seale-Mirza-Empty-Presence-final-manuscript.pdf

Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
015 - Snake Science
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
This week we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sokal Affair by talking about academic hoaxes. What are they? What qualifies as a hoax? Will the Leather Archives be our next guest on the podcast? Find out! All hail the snake science.
The “grievance studies” hoax does not reveal what its authors think.
Editor response to Sokal http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html
https://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400 < Reviewer for one of the papers
Opinion: I Published a Fake Paper in a 'Peer-Reviewed' Journal
Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud (jacobbuckman.com)
https://twitter.com/450Movement
"Robo-snakes" by jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
014 - Manga
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
This week we’re talking with Matthew Murray, co-host of the Book Club for Masochists podcast, about manga in libraries! We covered a lot of ground so shonen jump in!
https://twitter.com/MidniteLibrary
https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/
Links referenced:
Ohio Lawmakers Attempt to Ban Anime Book, Author Susan J. Napier Responds
The Plight of Translation In America - In 2018 47 books were translated from Japanese into English (this number does not include manga or light novels)
Manga in Libraries: Why Manga?
YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens
GNCRT’s Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List

Thursday Jun 03, 2021
013 - Anarchivists
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
This week we’re joined by Mark Matienzo to talk about archives access, mousework, digitization gig economics, and skin suits.
Mark’s Sourcery post: https://matienzo.org/2021/on-sourcery-or-the-enclosure-of-remote-access/
Caswell/Cifor article Mark mentions: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/687705/pdf
Mark’s Twitter: @anarchivist
Mark’s Bandcamp: https://blacktent.bandcamp.com

Thursday May 20, 2021
012 - PORN
Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
We’re finally at the porn episode! Bri Watson is here to talk about all things libraries and porn: metadata, collections, web filtering, Mormons, and more!
Charitable Non Profit | SWAN Vancouver Society | British Columbia
AI porn TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMetpXWce/

Thursday May 13, 2021
011 - Preserving Gamer Rights
Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
This week we’re joined by Mitchell Zemil from the documentary series Preserving Worlds on Means.tv! We talk about the series, gender online, preserving and interacting in open and closed online spaces, and material/virtual worlds.
https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds
A.L.T. Doom WAD article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/paq5bz/alt-doom-mod-stalker

Thursday Apr 29, 2021
010 - Information Shitteracy
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
This week we’re talking disinformation and misinformation. Also we feature a new segment!
Diary of a wimpy kid getting arrested
Santa Monica Library Branch to Reopen Under Self-Service Model - SM Mirror
Moving Forward, critically (handbook): Critical Disinformation Studies
librarypunk on twitter.

Thursday Apr 22, 2021
009 - Movie time
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
This week we talk about library worker representation in media! Movies, webcomics, TV, and more!
Perceptions of a Profession: Librarians and Stereotypes in Online Videos
16 Great Library Scenes in Film
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Cover image: "Day 12 - Jan 12: Madame Librarian" by Paul Howard Photo is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0